Fence-post



(No-Model.)

' L. B. HARMON & J. N. NUTT.

' FENCE POST.

No. 380,627. Patented Apr. 3, 1888.

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LEGRAND B. HARMON, OF CARYSVILLE, AND J ASPER N. NUTT, F SIDNEY, OHIO.

FENCE-POST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 380,627, dated April 3, 1888.

Application filed January 30, 1888. Serial No. 262,420. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom it may concern: make this very desirable form of kcrf without 50 Be it known that we, LEGRAND B. Harmon, cutting so deep into the post as to materially of Carysvillc, Champaign county. Ohio, and weaken it.

JASPER N. NUTT, of Sidney, Shelby county, For the purpose of maintaining the post in Ohio, citizens of theUnited States of America, an erect position when in the ground, we emhaveinvented certain new and useful Improveploy one or more anchors, B, removably se- 55 ments in Fence-Posts, of which the following cured to the front edge of the post. This anis a specification, reference being had therein chor we prefer to make in the form shown in to the accompanying drawings. the d rawings-that is to say, by bending the Our invention relates to fenceposts for wire respective ends of a rectangular piece of metal fences; and it consists in certain details of conin opposite directions. An anchor of this form, 69 struction, which will first be described in conwhen attached to the post, offers greatly-innection with the accompanying drawings, and creased resistance'to deflection of the post in then pointed out in theclainis. any and all directions, as will be readily ap- I 5 Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective parent on inspection of Fig. 10f the drawings.

view of our post with two anchors attached. In order to attach the anchor to the front 6 Fig. 2 is a perspective view of an anchor and edge of the post, and at the same time to give a portion of the post. Fig. 3 is a rear elevait a broad bearing, so that it cannot swing out tion of a portion of the post with an anchor of position,we out two transverse slits through attached. Fig. 4 is a side view of a portion of the head on the post and a short distance into the post, illustrating the wire-receiving kerfs. the sides a a, and then sever the intermediate Referring to the drawings, A represents the portion by a vertical cut down the center of post, stamped up from metal, and for the purthe head, after which we bend back each sevpose of description it may be said to be V- cred portion into a position at right angles to 25 shaped in cross-section. The front edge of the the axis of the post, thus forming bearings or post, however-thatis to say, the edge to which anchor-braces 4 and leaving an opening, 5, for 7 5 the sides a a convergeis rolled up into a the reception of the tongue on the anchor. nearly half-round bead, b, the function of which This tongue 15 is formed by cutting two paralbead, aside from giving strength to the post, lel slits, 6, in the anchor and bending the in- 20 will be presently explained. tcrmediate portion rearward into concave For the purpose of attaching the fence-wires form, as viewed from the front, and the other w to the post, we cut kerfs c in its front edge, portions on each side of the tongue into conwhich kerfs incline downward and rearward, vex form, so that while the tongue passes rearas at 1, then forward, as at 2, and finally terwardly through the opening 5 in the post the 3 5 minate in perforations, as at 3, Fig. 4, in which convex parts will fit neatly around the bead.

latter the wires are to be inserted. It will be A wedge, d, or other suitable device is then noticed that these wire-receiving perforations inserted between the tongue and the rear side 3 are located at the rear of head I), and that of the head, as seen in Fig. 3, which serves to consequently the lip Z, formed by the kerf,will, key the anchor to the post.

40 owing to the comparative rigidity of the bead, One anchor will generally be found sutficient be caused to spring back with considerable to secure the post; but two or more may be force after the wire has been passed down used if the nature of the soil demands them. through the kerf and forward into the perfo- By the above description our invention is ration,whereby the wire will be securely held clearly. distinguished from the V-shaped post 4 5 without the interposition of wedges or other having oblique kerfs cut across its front edge,

like devices, it being understood that the diwhich kerfs terminate directlyin apertures for 5 ameter of the perforation is somewhat less than the reception of the wire, for by that constructhat of the wire; and it will also be noticed tion there is little or no resiliency in the lip, that by reason of the bead we are enabled to and therefore, in order to hold the wire firmly,

it has been found necessary to either wrap it around posts at intervals or to secure it to each post by means of wedges and like devices.

We are aware that an anchor made from a rectangular piece of metal with its ends bent in opposite directions from each other is not new; but we believe we are the first to combine this desirable form of anchor with a beaded V-shaped post.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A metallic V-shaped fence-post with an approximately semi-cylindrical head on the edge formed by the meeting of the sides, having a series of wiresecuring lips on said edge, the said lips being formed by downwardly and rearwardly inclined and forwardly-extending kerfs terminating in perforations in rear of the bead, substantially as described.

2. The combinatiomwith a V-shaped metall-ic fence-post having an approximately semicylindrical head on the edge formed by the meeting of the sides, an opening through said beaded edge, and an anchor-brace integral with the post on each side of said opening, of an anchor having a rearwardly extending tongue to pass through the opening in the post and a key or other suitable device to pass between the tongue and the rear side of the bead,

substantially as described, and for the pur-' pass between the tongue and the rear side of the bead, substantially as described, and for the purposes stated.

In testimony whereof we affix oursignatures in presence of two witnesses.

LEGRAND B. HARMON. I JASPER N. NUTT.

\Vitnesses:

H. WILSON, B. W. GILFILLAN. 

